Tiddlywiki

This page describes how to convert notes from TiddlyWiki to Markdown.

General Information

  • Website
  • Typical extension: .json, .tid of folder of .tid files

Instructions

  1. Export as described at the website
    1. Choose "JSON file" if you want to export the complete wiki
    2. Choose "TID text file" if you want to export a single tiddler only. Resources and internal links won't be converted in this case.
  2. Install jimmy
  3. Convert to Markdown. Examples:
    1. jimmy-cli-linux tiddlers.json --format tiddlywiki
    2. jimmy-cli-linux tiddlers.tid --format tiddlywiki
    3. jimmy-cli-linux /folder/to/tiddlers --format tiddlywiki
  4. Import to your app

Known Limitations

Note content is in TiddlyWiki's WikiText format. It is converted, but Markdown supports only a subset. For example Javascript functions won't work in the converted Markdown anymore.